Let us not forget the extent of the fabrications about the Jessica Lynch rescue story. We are not talking about the fine points surrounding whether or not the hospital was occupied enough (or not) by enemy Iraq troops to warrant the Hollywood-type SWAT team recovery. Or how a rescue wouldn’t have been necessary if troops hadn’t opened fire on an ambulence trying to deliver Lynch.
I’m more upset about reports from “U.S. Officials”, such as this MSNBC story which embellishes about how Lynch shot several enemy soldiers before running out of ammunition after an ambush. How she “did not want to be taken alive.”
In fact, there was no ambush. No battle. Only a car accident.
No bullets. No stab wounds.
This from April 3, 2003:
Rescued POW put up fierce fight
Details emerge of W.Va. soldier